[isf-wifidog] iTunes

[Mina Naguib]

Only for the sake of scientific achievement :-)

Et voila:
     User-Agent: iTunes/6.0.3 (Macintosh; N; PPC)\r\n

I'll try to run the same test from a windows iTunes client to make  
sure the identification is similar, then start testing whether a TCP  
connection close/HTTP reply code (4xx/5xx families) is handled the  
best by iTunes.

On 28-Feb-06, at 5:09 PM, Michael Lenczner wrote:

> <laughing>
> I never thought I would hear the words "I'll subscribe to a couple of
> podcasts in iTunes" come out of your mouth, mina.
>
> :-D
>
>
> On 2/28/06, Mina Naguib <mina at naguib.ca> wrote:
>>
>> WiFiDog already handles a few "bad clients" we've seen that in early
>> development caused problems.
>>
>> If we can determine a specific header that iTunes sends (userAgent
>> perhaps?) in it's request we could have WiFiDog not issue a redirect
>> and instead serve specific content tailored to iTunes (or simply
>> close the connection).
>>
>> I'll subscribe to a couple of podcasts in iTunes to see if there's
>> anything useful we could use.
>>
>> On 28-Feb-06, at 4:30 PM, Francois Proulx wrote:
>>
>>> Outch... I really don't know how we can prevent this. This is a
>>> very very
>>> bad side effect of Wifidog not being connected when the
>>> synchronisation
>>> starts automatically ....
>>>
>>>
>>> I can't think of a way to trap this, since it is using simple HTTP
>>> GET...
>>> It appears iTunes decides to update the URL as soon as it receives
>>> an HTTP
>>> Redirect. What's in the Wifidog HTTP header ? (HTTP 2XX code )
>>>
>>>
>>>> J'ai un petit problème avec mon lecteur de podcast (iTunes). Je
>>>> n'arrive plus à synchroniser mes podcasts à partir de chez moi.
>>>>
>>>> Il semble que lorsque j'ai fait une synchronisation dans un café où
>>>> j'utilisais Ile sans fil, il s'est passé quelque chose d'un peu
>>>> bizarre... tous les URLs utilisés par iTunes pour synchroniser mes
>>>> podcasts ont été remplacés par un autre URL.
>>>>
>>>> Par exemple:
>>>>
>>>> Avant: http://www.cnn.com/services/podcasting/newscast/rss.xml
>>>>
>>>> Après: https://auth.ilesansfil.org/login/?
>>>> gw_adress=192.168.8.1&gw_port=2060&gw_id=11&url=http%3A// 
>>>> www.cnn.com/
>>>> services/podcasting/newscast/rss.xml
>>>>
>>>> Il n'y a pas de commande dans iTunes me permettant de ramener ces
>>>> URLs à ce qu'ils étaient avant...
>>>>
>>>> Yanik
>>>>
>>>> English summary:
>>>>
>>>> No more Podcast synch from home using iTunes.
>>>>
>>>> All URLs associated with podcasts have been changed without any
>>>> manual intervention from myself.
>>>>
>>>> Example:
>>>>
>>>> Before: http://www.cnn.com/services/podcasting/newscast/rss.xml
>>>>
>>>> After: https://auth.ilesansfil.org/login/?
>>>> gw_adress=192.168.8.1&gw_port=2060&gw_id=11&url=http%3A// 
>>>> www.cnn.com/
>>>> services/podcasting/newscast/rss.xml
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The problem is that I can't reset anything manually. I have to re-
>>>> subscribe to every podcast and re-download everything as if the
>>>> previous and the new one are completly different.
>>>>
>>>> Very annoying.
>>>>
>>>> Yanik
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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